爱彼迎

Airbnb's Chinese name 爱彼迎 (Ài bǐ yíng) is a creative translation: 爱 means 'love', 彼 means 'each other', and 迎 means 'welcome'. Together it means 'lovingly welcoming each other', capturing the homestay spirit while roughly phonetically matching 'Airbnb'.

Character-by-character pronunciation

爱彼迎 uses 3 characters to represent the brand name in Chinese. Each character contributes to the phonetic or semantic rendering.